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Foveation as self-supervision signal: Blur masks beat blank masks for learning robust visual representations
Akihito Maruya, Hossein Adeli Jelodar, Tian Zheng…·Ning Qian A
This paper introduces blur and retinal masks as self-supervision signals for vision transformers, showing improved robustness and generalization in visual representation learning.
DOI 10.64898/2026.09.26.754698